National Republican., 1887-03-31
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Gen. Malone has arrived OF his home in
Petersburg.
w. II. Brown has been appointed fish In
spector at Norfolk by Gov. Lee.
Mr.. James Cloud, Of Berryvllle, Clarke
county, has just celebrated his oath birth
day.
Postofllces have been established at
Dorcas, Augusta county, and Lynnhaven,
Princess Ann county.
Col. s. d. Goodwin, late Judge OF the cor
poration court of Norfolk, has taken the
stump for the Republicans In Norfolk
county, and is making a vigorous canvass.
Warwick circuit court commenced It's
session on Tuesday, when two suits for
$4,000 were brought against the Newport
News Elevator Company for two lives lost
by the recent explosion Of the boiler Of that
establishment.
The Republicans Of Halifax county have
made the following nominations for county
offices: For commonwealth attorney, John
T.. Cobbs; clerk of county court, j. B.
Stoyall; clerk OF circuit court, w. B.
Moore; sheriff, DIR. j. I. King; treasurer,
Thomas Younger.
An inquest was held In Norfolk on Tues.
day over the remains Of Mrs. Cooper, who
was killed In the ferry-boat collision on
Monday. She was about twenty years old,
and had been married about three months.
Mrs. Little, the other lady injured at the
same time, is believed to be fatally injured.
The Lynchburg Manufacturing Company
was organized In 1873 to grind sumac, large
quantities Of which grow In that section Of
Virginia. The company grinds annually an
average OF 100000 pounds, which is OBJ @.
tained within a radius OF fifty miles from the
aAN IIt., .l.,..A - l. -
fully equal to the foreign sumac, which
comes mainly from Sicily.
The truck farms and fruit trees in the
vicinity. OF Norfolk show great damage
from the late cold weather. Green peas
are badly hurt; so are lately.set cabbage
plants. One trucker says he will lose over
thousand dollars or Strawberries, and
berries generally are put back at least three
weeks. From the fruit farms OF Princess
Anne serious damage is reported.
The temperance cause is making decided
headway In Warren county. In November
last woman's Christian temperance union
was organized in this place, which now
numbers over eighty members. The ladies
have visited portions of the county, form
ing unions at Brownstown and Ben.
tonville; also a coiored uulon at Front
Royal. Elections In Front Royal and South
River districts have gone in favor of local
option, which takes effect May l.
The sales of leaf tobacco at Lynchburg
last week were light, rs compared with the
same time laet year, but the qualities were
very good and prices well sustained. Some
sold at unusually fine prices. The total
decrease In sales this yesr so far over 1886,
during the same period, amounts to S,705,-
100 pounds. This is enormous. The fac
| tories do not work on more than half time,
and tbne mako ft u hor ri tba 1ah hNr
| ing classes who are skilled in that kind Of
work.
The report OF DR.. j. i. Buchanan, super
| intendent OF public schools of Virginia,
shows that the number of schools open in
1856 was q, ,763, an increase of 1SS over the
| year 1885. The average length OF the school
term was 5,02 months; and average monthly
salary of teachers, for males, $30.7, (;
females, 500 81. The total cost of the
public school system for the year 1886 was
$l,453, 102, SO; Of which the state supplied
SS3l, ,794.65, and the counties and cities,
s621 ,306.Ss. There were 304 school houses
built during the last year.
The Virginia Normal Institute at Peters
burg is fortunate In having, In the person
OF Prof. John NJ. Langston, the most
scholarly president the race has ever pro.
duced. The institute was founded In 1882,
and is supported by an appropriation from
the state of Virginia OF 100000 annually
1t is dedicated to the exclusive education Of
colored youth, male and female, and no
person is eligible to place therein as
| officer or instructor who is not Of negro ex-
traction. The faculty, as at present con.
stituted, is composed Of ten we'll educated,
scholarly persons--four ladies aud six gem
| tlemep. In addition to the ordinary de
| partments and courses Of study established
| and pursued in the institute-the course of
study covering all the branches of mathe-
matical, philosophical, scientific, and classi.
cal subjects ordinarily prescribed In normal
and collegiate Institutions, with prepara-
tory and hiOhpr dapnrtmonts